A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of ...

Inflammation in former football players was tied to limbic white matter damage and worse memory, revealing a potential pathway linking repetitive head impacts to later cognitive decline.

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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have defined criteria for a memory-loss syndrome in older adults that affects the brain’s limbic system and often is mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease. Limbic-predominant ...

Researchers have established new criteria for a memory-loss syndrome in older adults that specifically impacts the brain's limbic system. It can often be mistaken for Alzheimer's disease. Researchers ...

Your brain is not one integrated system. Conscious thoughts, the words that go through your head, occur primarily in your cortex, which is the outer six layers of brain cells. It also processes the ...

New criteria were proposed for a syndrome that mimics the clinical features of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers called this disorder limbic-predominant amnestic neurodegenerative syndrome (LANS).

Patients experiencing memory problems often come to neurologist David Jones, MD, for second opinions. They repeat questions and sometimes misplace items. Their primary care clinician has suggested ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

In former college and professional football players, a new study has found higher levels of inflammation were associated with ...